Category: Meet the Stakeholders

IrBEA

IrBEA was founded in 1999. Its role is to promote the bioenergy industry and to develop this important sector on the island of Ireland. The

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Kilwaughter Lime

Kilwaughter Lime has been an established mineral and quarry processor since 1939. Quarrying and production facilities are based at headquarters in Larne, Northern Ireland, where

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Nutri2Cycle

The Nutri2Cycle project, funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is focused on the development of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus loop closure

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Northern Ireland Water

Northern Ireland Water is a Government Owned Company (GoCo), set up in April 2007 to provide the water and sewerage services in Northern Ireland. We

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Yara

Yara fertiliser solutions help farmers increase yield and profit. For over 170 years the company’s focus has been to be a leading crop nutrition provider

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Towards a bio-based all-island economy: urban biowaste conversion to carboxylates, nutrient products and renewable energy

In 2022, the EPA granted research funding to the University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast to look at current urban biowaste processing systems across the island of Ireland to identify areas where valorisation of urban biowaste could result in the development of new value chains and enable a more sustainable system North and South.

The core areas of research within this project are:

  • to develop a stakeholder-led transformative change model for urban biowaste sustainability on the island of Ireland,
  • to demonstrate the recovery of carboxylate platform chemicals, nutrients and biogas from urban biowaste and their valorisation to high value-added products as an appropriate technological cascade to enable system-wide change towards Irish urban biowaste sustainability
  • to develop an enhanced support capacity, through the Irish Nutrient Sustainability Platform to develop and implement urban biowaste conversion project across Irish cities and towns, North and South.

 

If you have any queries on the project, or would like to get involved, please contact nutrientsustainability@qub.ac.uk